CVE-2016-4006 in Wireshark

Summary

epan/proto.c in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.11 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 does not limit the protocol-tree depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted packet.

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• Reservation: 04/13/2016
• Disclosure: 04/25/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-82833 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• Exploit: Download
• CVSS: 5.6
• EPSS: 0.00197
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4006
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4006
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-4006/